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This raises a very interesting question ... I'm actually somewhat surprised that IO::All doesn't do this already :-)

After all ... IO::All is great at doing things the "naive" way...

Update: Thanks, itub - I just looked at the IO::All docs, and didn't even notice the plethora of add-ons :-)

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Re^2: How to read from an URL ?
by itub (Priest) on Mar 31, 2005 at 19:38 UTC
    It does, if you install IO::All::LWP: 
    # examples from the SYNOPSIS
use IO::All;

"hello world\n" > io('ftp://localhost/test/x');   # save to FTP
$content < io('http://example.org');              # GET webpage

io('http://example.org') > io('index.html');      # save webpage

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    And you can also tie it, treat is as a file, and use other IO::All tricks: 

    my $io = io('http://example.org')->tie;
while (<$io>) {
  # do something
}

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      After already having succeding with LWP::Simple; I tried IO::All.
      But it didn't compile. I got some Error for not finding a Spiffy constructor. What did I wrong?
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        Did you install Spiffy? It's one of the required modules.
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